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Hardcover A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age Book

ISBN: 0374194416

ISBN13: 9780374194413

A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

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A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane.

On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting the beautiful but mysterious Lena McMahon, the daughter...

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